

> ああ 水車小屋か

> 風情があっていいな

The character said this after stopping in front of a 水車小屋. Why is ていいな here
being used here?


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What does this use of あっていいな mean?


You appear to have parsed this incorrectly; it should be

[風情が][[あって]いい]な

the Verb/Adjective + て + いい construction meaning 'it is nice that it
does/has/is...', or 'it is nice and ...'. Hence, here, 'it is nice and
charming', 'it is nice that it has style' and so on.


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  1. With 風情があっていいな, you're saying that the water mill has charm, and that having that charm/style is nice. It essentially implies that the water mill is nice due to having charm, even though there's no explicit "because" or equivalent formula.

Getting away from literal translation and structure, it's roughly equivalent
to: "That water mill? It's got a certain charm. I like that."

  2. If you say 風情がいいな, you're saying that the charm itself is nice.

It would be closer to: "That water mill? I like it's charm."

Put another way, the difference lies in whether 「いい」 applies to the water mill
itself, or to its charm.


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